Can't think a straight line beyond the hill It seems like a mountain Next to an ocean, behind a thrill Almost in my reach If there's a way I could Feel the face of intelligence I'm a man, I would understand What a good head says You're no me You're no me You're no me Can't see the forest for all The green, it all gets in my way Can't dig a desert without The need for old religion, for holy grails And a Jesus nail through the head For all the pain and misguided faith My mind erased before I had time To waste my afternoon Every thirty days a light goes on And brightens my backyard A yellow dying sun, I bite my tongue And swallow pride and blood On some other plane I have Become affected, drawn and strange I'm inclined to blame my mother For dressing me like a girl Like a girl Like a girl I don't know maybe that's kind of weird A teenage breakdown without the will Or without thinking Taking low roads and colored pills Always searching Maybe then I would find a place in this mess It swells a vein that the only things That are keeping me awake Are re-runs of the Mod Squad and cartoons Every thirty days a light goes on And brightens my backyard A yellow dying sun, I bite my tongue And swallow pride and blood On some other plane I have Become affected, drawn and strange I'm inclined to blame my mother For dressing me like a girl Like a girl Like a girl I don't know maybe that's kind of weird